Word: zapata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...revolutionary armies of Zapata marched into Mexico City singing such songs as Valentina. Today's Mexicans still hear Valentina, as well as more modern ballads, as they bounce to work in battered buses over the capital's paved and cobbled streets. Sometimes the music is from the driver's radio. More often it is strummed by a wandering guitar player who has hopped aboard to travel free. As he plays, he croons; passengers sing with him. When he has finished, he passes...
...drifted home again to exhibit what he had done. He ran right into the revolution against Dictator Diaz. The same week Diego's exhibit opened, Francisco Madero proclaimed Diaz a usurper and, with the help of Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata, began the seven-month job of forcing the aging dictator out of Mexico. After Diego's show closed, he lit out for the open country, carrying messages to the revolutionaries...
...Adelita in the company of a Carrancista to get his guitar strings shot off. Carranza won the war, but Adelita has long since won the battle of the mariachi bands. Today, when a group of paunchy old boys gather in a cantina for an evening-Indians who robbed with Zapata, green-eyed Chihuahuans who followed Felipe Angeles, tall-talking Sonorans who fought from Obregón's armored trains-they call for Adelita...
Because of the song, Adelita has come to symbolize all the sturdy women of the revolution-such scowling Amazons as Colonel Juanita, who commanded a regiment of Zapata's best cavalry; the handsome, .45-toting blondes of the Café Viena in Guadalajara, who could pick out a tune by firing at piano keys; the thousands of soldaderas who followed their men into battle, gave birth in boxcars, somehow managed also to produce three meals...
...Hand. In Medellin, Colombia, Candido Zapata, 81, veteran of four marital ventures, attended the christening of his 54th child...